Traveling case



O. H. PLOTKIN TRAVELING CASE May 9, 1933.

Filed June 25.` 1930 VPatented May 9A, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE OSCAR H. PLOTKIN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR- TO S. DRESNER & SON, INC.,l OF

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION 0F ILLINOIS i TBAVELING oAsE Application filed J'une 23,

My invention relates to traveling cases and is particularly useful in connection with cases of the Grladstone type, though the invention is not to be thus limited. My invention is inclusive of an article carrier which is detachably applicable to suitable anchoring means in the case. When the invention is employed in conjunction with a traveling case of the Gladstone type, twoanchorages are preferably provided for the article carrier, one at the hinged side of the usual swinging partition that separates the two main compartments of the case and the other at the opposite side of said partition in the location occupied by this side when the partition is in its normally closed position. The an.- chorage at the hinged side of the partition is desirably not provided directly upon the partition, but is in the form of a tab affordv ing a hinged connection betweenthe article carrier and partition permitting these two elements to be widely swung apart.A The article carrier is desirably collapsible and in that event such a tab may be employed in conjunction with another tab to bind and hold the article carrier collapsed. The anchorage for the article carrier which is in the region of the free side of the partition when this partition is closed is desirably also mounted apart from the partition and is preferably in the form of a tab, which may be employed to hold the partition directly closed when the article carrier is collapsed, or it may be employed to hold the article carrier in assembly with the partition and to hold the partition closed through the intermediation of the article carrier.

The article carrier may be constructed in various ways suitable to the articles to be carried thereby. In one embodiment of the invention I provide large pockets suitable for holding shoes or the like. Vhen the article carrier is made flexible and collapsible the pockets are desirably also flexible and collapsible, folding lines of both pockets and carrier being substantially parallel so that both may be folded inthe same folding operation. When the article carrier .is unfolded or stretched and is held so by its anchorages, the pockets are automatically unfolded and 1930. Serial No. 463,087.

opened suliiciently for thelreception of the i articles to be carried thereby.V I do not wish,

however, to be limited to the employment of one or more pockets as the means for enabling the article carrier to carry articles though my invention finds greatutility when thus embodied. Each of the aforesaid anchorages is desirably duplicated to firmly secure the article carrier in its expanded or collapsed ad] ust-ment.

rl[he invention will be more fully explained in connection with the accompanying drawing in which Fig. l is a perspective view of a Gladstone case containing the preferred form of article carrier which is shown collapsed; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the article carrier expanded; and Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view, on a larger scale, lshowing the case opened and the article carrier in the position it occupies when fully assembled with the case in expanded adjustment.

The traveling case illustrated is inclusive of two half sections l and 2 which are hinged at two of their adjacent margins and which are provided with the usual complemental latching means 3, 3 and 4, l upon the .two halves of the case. Key controlled locking means may also be employed of which complemental parts and 6 respectively are shown upon the two casing halves. The usual handle 7 is provided upon the casing half l for carrying the case.

A swinging 'partition 8, of somewhat stili' i or semi-rigid material is hinged in the usual or any preferable way at the hinged sides of the casing halves, as by means ofa bar 9 which is riveted or otherwise suitably secured to the case inthe region of the hinged edges of its halves as indicated, for example,in Fig. 3. Two holding tabs l() are mounted upon the frame ll pertaining to the casing half lA and at the open side of 4this casing half and vopposite the-hinged edges of the two casing Y halves. `These tabs and the contiguous portion of the partition are provided with interengaging holding formations whereby said partition may be held in a closed position to maintain-the casing at l closedA and permitting full access to the casing half 2, when the case is opened. .c Such complemenwhich is to carry it and is so applicable at its four corner portions, partcularly if the carrier be made of flexible material, so as to be collapsible. The anchoring means whereby the article carrier may be attached is desirably inclusive of the aforesaid tabs 10 which for the purpose are disengaged from the fastening members i3 and are engaged with the male fastening members 15 instead, so that said tabs 10 may perform the double function of holding the partition 8 in closed position and also servino' as a. part of the anchoring means for the article carrier. The attachment of the article carrier maybe completed with the aid of Vadditional tabs 1G which are disposed at the hinged side of the partition and which constitute anchorages for the contiguous side of the carrier. These tabs and the carrier are desirably also provided with snaps inclusive of interengaging holding formations 17 and 18 that are respectively carried by the tabs 16 and the carrier 14 and in the nature of male and female parts.

The carrier shown is adapted to carry shoes and to this end has added thereto the pockets 19 which are in the nature of collapsible pieces of fabric which are sewed at their margins to the main sheet of the carrier and along the hinged edge of the partition. Vhen these pockets are not occupied or if they should contain sufficiently small objects, the carrier may be detached from tie tabs 10 and collapsed, together with the pockets, the carrier then being adapted to be tucked into Y one corner of the casing half 2 adjacent the hinged edges of the casing halves. In order that the carrier may be held in its collapsed position, I provide other tabs 20 in t ie casing half 2 which cooperate with the tab 16 to bind the collapsed carrier and hold it in its place in the case. When the carrier is thus positioned, the tabs 16 are disconnected from it and are connected with the tabs 20 which are desirably provided with male fastening snap members 21 that cooperate'with the female snap members 17 to hold the tabs in contracting relation to the collapsed carrier.

' When the carrier is to be attached, it is suitably stretched between its anchorages that assemble it with the partition 8, the pockets 19 also then suiciently unfolding to adapt them them to the 'reception of the articles which are to be held thereby.

Changes may be made without departing from the invention. l

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. A traveling case of the Gladstone type including two sections which are hingedly connected along contiguous edge portions and a partition hingedly connected to the case adjacent the hinge connection between the two sections and serving to constitute a closure for either of the sections, anfarticle carrier comprising a flexible collapsible sheet having thereon a flexible collapsible pocket forming sheet, the carrier and pocket sheet having folding lines extending from side to side thereof, and means for holding the article carrier extended over said partition and between points adjacent the hinged edge of the partition and the edge opposite the hinged edge with the lines of fold of the article carrier and its pocket arranged along lines paralleling the hinged edge of the partition.

2. A traveling case of the Gladstone type 1 including two sections which are hingedly connected along contiguous edge portions Y and aopartition hingedly connected to the case adjacent the hinge connection between the two sections and serving to constitute a closure for either of the sections, a collapsible y l article carrier, means for detachably holding the article carrier extended over said partition and between points adjacent the hinged edge of the partition andthe edge opposite the hinged edge, and means in one casing section cooperating with said holding means for holding the collapsed article carrier with its pocket in collapsed condition within said casing section. i

3. A traveling case of the Gladstone type including two sections which are hingedly connected along contiguous edge portions and a partition hingedly connected tothe case adjacent the hinge connection between the two sections and serving to constitute a closur-e for either of the sections, an article carrier comprising a flexibl collapsible sheet having thereon a flexible collapsible pocket forming sheet, means for holding the article carrier extended over said partition and bemeans inone casing section, co-operating with means for holding the article carrier extended over said partition for holding the carrier collapsed within one casing section.

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe 1 my name. I

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